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It's only about 1700 square feet, so not enormous at all. Oil is just absurdly expensive at the moment for obvious reasons. If it didn't cost so much to switch to another heat source, I would absolutely do it.
Non-complaint: Mini-adventure over. Everything came out OK.
8:00 bus to the hospital area in the center of the city. Had big breakfast at small local diner near the hospital. Toddled down the hill to the dying commercial area. Went into the bank branch, deposited a check, took out some cash, got some $1 coins. Toddled across the parking lot to the dollar store. Browsed, found nothing that I couldn't do without.
Toddled across the street to the medical labs & my cardiologist. Unnecessarily notified cardiologist receptionist that I had postponed my stress test, as an excuse to use their waiting room to comfortably waste some more time while TV and people watching and to use their nice clean toilet facilities.
Ubered to near part of city to the Chinese takeout on the west end of the decrepit mini-mall, got my Szechuan Chicken
takeout, toddled to the middle of the decrepit mini-mall to the hole-in-the-wall beanery for lunch (instead of breakfast for a change), Ubered to dentist an hour early. Fell asleep in dentist's waiting room, Dentist arrived at 1:00 and got me in the chair. I screamed a couple of times as he shattered my molar and spent nearly a half hour trying to get all the pieces out.
Ubered home, commiserated with Uber driver who had also had a tooth pulled a couple of days earlier.
Complaint: Had wonderful time changing blood soaked gauze pads every 45 minutes a few times. Anesthetic wore off about supper time. Soup, for the next couple of days.
So, my Szechuan Chicken is dying in the refrigerator.
That, wasn't well planned.
Looking forward to drooling pink ooze onto my pillow case tonight.
Is it a flat fee, rather than based on usage?
It's calculated on projected usage. They're charging $4.99/gallon times however much they think we're going to use over the winter, and then divided into 9 payments, May through January. I got another email that says we can pay $330/month over 12 months instead. We're going to have to do that because there's no way I'm coming up with almost $600/month. That still ends up being nearly $1k more over the year, though.
That said, it's not a fixed rate this year, so it could go up again.
I was worried about heating costs for this house going up so much that the new landlord might have to suggest that I pay some sort of additional fuel charge to enhance my permanently fixed(written into the house sales contract by previous landlord) rent plus utilities cost(hasn't changed in 18 years.
). But here's what Gemini reports about the cost of heating fuels. And since this house is heated with gas, now I don't feel so guilty about my previous landlord's opinion of me, causing my new landlord major problems.
I don't know why I was so lucky.
Ouch! And diesel used to be the goto fuel for economy! What happened? Gemini says the switch happened around the mid 2000s.
Well for one thing a lot of diesel used to be produced in Russia and with the war their exports dropped. And as it requires a specific refining process it's not that easy to produce more elsewhere.
Diesel is easier to produce than petrol. It goes through less refining than petrol. Diesel is a lot cheaper to produce, it's eco-taxes that make up 75% of the cost.
Complaint : Started my radiation treatments yesterday ,was thinking that the side affects wouldn't start immediatly , I was wrong ........oops my bad .
I'm so sorry, and hope you can weather them okay.
I'm not sure if tummy troubles are one of your issues, but maybe look into Sea Bands if so... it's a soft fabric elastic you wear around your wrist, and there's a little plastic piece that presses a particular accupressure point that helps reduce nausea. They can also be used for travel/motion/"sea" sickness, hence the name, but I have friends who have been through cancer treatments who swear by them. Amazon has them, often drug stores do as well.
@carrie58 Pushing positive waves your way.
Non-complaint: First day of soup is done. Tooth socket has stopped bleeding.
Acetaminophen (Tylenol) helps with the jaw pain for a few hours.
I risked a small bowl of the fried rice from my Szechuan Chicken and chewed only on the good side of my mouth. Lukewarm coffee & tea help refresh my mouth. Saltwater rinse after all meals. Tomorrow I finally get to brush my teeth, carefully avoiding the bad spot, but no alcohol, no acidic mouthwash, and no smoking(anything) for a week.
Symphony buddy emailed me. Maybe in a week we can get together for breakfast again. But I'd rather push it out for three weeks because I'm already way over my budget for this month.
Complaint: I open my refrigerator or browse my pantry and I see oodles of crunchy, snacky things that the dentist has strictly forbidden me for a week or two.
I'm determined to enjoy my Szechuan Chicken, but the crunchier parts will have to wait for another day or three.
I'm keeping it in the coldest part of the refrigerator.
Nostalgia: I finally broke down and ordered the two volume DVD set of the first year of the original '60s TV show "Burke's Law".
(Got the last copy at Amazon.
) I found out that the second year is not, and has never been, available.
And as I remember, the third year wasn't worth remembering because they changed the premise of the show. Anybody familiar with the original '60s version knows what I mean about nostalgia. Each episode had 5 or more famous guest stars from that era.
Which is why the 2nd year isn't available, because of the licensing and royalties complexities for all those guests. And the show has changed ownership several times. Boogers!
Anybody else old enough to remember the original Burke's Law series? They tried to revive it in the '90s but it wasn't nearly as good. There's something about the b/w originals that made it so special.